Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended - Manual (Page 376)

370 USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Searching and indexing
Last updated 9/30/2011
If a catalog has an especially large number of documents, consider including a table that shows the values assigned
to each document. The table can be part of your Readme file or a separate document. While you are developing the
index, you can use the table to maintain consistency.
Revise an index
You can update, rebuild, or purge an existing index.
1 Select Advanced > Document Processing > Full Text Index With Catalog, and then click Open Index.
2 Locate and select the index definition file (PDX) for the index, and click Open.
3 If the index was created with Acrobat 5.0 or earlier, select Create Copy to create a new index (without overwriting
the earlier version), or select Overwrite Old Index to overwrite the earlier index.
4 In the Index Definition dialog box, make any changes you want, and then click the function you want Acrobat to
perform:
Build Creates a new IDX file with the existing information, and updates it by adding new entries and marking changed
or outdated entries as invalid. If you make a large number of changes, or use this option repeatedly instead of creating
a new index, search times may increase.
Rebuild Creates a new index, overwriting the existing index folder and its contents (the IDX files).
Purge Deletes the index contents (the IDX files) without deleting the index file itself (PDX).
Catalog preferences
You can set preferences for indexing that apply globally to all subsequent indexes you build. You can override some of
these preferences for an individual index by selecting new options during the index-building process.
In the Preferences dialog box under Categories, select Catalog. Many of the options are identical to those described for
the index-building process.
The Force ISO 9660 Compatibility On Folders option is useful when you don’t want to change long PDF filenames to
MS-DOS filenames as you prepare documents for indexing. However, you must still use MS-DOS file-naming
conventions for the folder names (8 characters or fewer) even though this isn’t necessary for the filenames.
Scheduled index updates
Use the Catalog feature and a catalog batch PDX file (.bpdx) to schedule when and how often to automatically build,
rebuild, update, and purge an index. A BPDX file is a text file that contains a list of platform-dependent catalog index
file paths and flags. You use a scheduling application, such as Windows Scheduler, to display the BPDX file in Acrobat.
Acrobat then re-creates the index according to the flags in the BPDX file.
For more information on scheduling an indexing update, search for BPDX at www.adobe.com/support .
Note: To use BPDX files, in the Preferences dialog box under Catalog, select Allow Catalog Batch Files (.bpdx) To Be Run.